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and diftance between them, and the place where, for the mod 

 part refpefting the circumftances of the perfons to dye, or their 

 deaths themfelves, aswilleafily be collc&ed from the following 

 relation. 



34. The firft knocking that was heard, or at leaft obferved, 

 was about a year after the reftoration of the King, in the after- 

 noon a little before night, at or upon the door it being then open, 

 as it was apprehended by Mrs. Elenor Wood, mother to Captain 

 Bafil Wood, who only heard it, none being then by or about the 

 boufe but her felf ; at which (lie was very much difturbed, think- 

 ing it boded fome ill to her or hers, and within fourteen nights 

 after, (lie had news of the death of her Son in law Mr. George 

 Smith, who dyed in London. 



35 . About three years after that, there were three great knocks 

 given very audibly to all that were then in the houfe, vi%. to the 

 aforefaid Mrs. Elenor Wood, Mr. Bafil Wood, and his wife Mrs. 

 Hefier, and fome fervants : which knocks were fo remarkable, 

 that one of the maids came from the well which was about twenty 

 yards from the place, to fee what was the matter ; and Mrs. E- 

 lenor Wood, and another maid that was within the boufe, faw three 

 great pans of Lard (hake and totter fo upon a ftelf in the Milk? 

 houje, that they were like to fall down. Upon this violent knock? 

 ing, Mr. Bafil Wood and his wife being then in the hall, came 

 prefently into the milk-houfe to their mother, where rinding her 

 fomwhat difturbed, and enquiring the reafon, fie replyed, God 

 Almighty only knew the matter, fit could tell nothing but [he 

 heard the knocking^ ; which being within doors, Mr. Bafil Wood 

 concluded muft be for fome of the Family at home, that upon 

 the door being for a friend abroad'- which accordingly fell out, 

 three of the family, according to the number of the knocks, dying 

 within little more than half a year after ; vi%. Mrs. Heiler Wood 

 wife to Mr. Bafil Wood, a child of Mr. Woods filler, and Mrs. - 

 lenor Wood his mother. 



36. About Auguft, 1674. Mr. Bafil Wood junior, (onofBa- 

 fil aforefaid, living at Exeter in Devon-fiire, heard the fame kind 

 of knocking, at which being difturbed, he wrote word of it to 

 his Eather here at Bampton in Oxford-fiire ; vix. That one Sun- 

 day, he and his wife, and her fitter, and his brother, did diftinftly 

 hear upon a Table in their Chamber as they ftood by it, two fe- 



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